Springfield Mall – From Eyesore to Shopping Mecca $200 million Springfield Mall renovation set to begin in July. The grand entry plaza near the Loisdale Road entrance.

When Paramus Park opened on March 14, 1974, surrounded by a 4,000-car parking lot, the 300-pound, burnt-orange bird and its young rider were there to greet shoppers at the mall's north end.

The Shoppes at Buckland Hills mall, which sparked the growth of a retail mecca in Manchester and neighboring South Windsor beginning in the 1990s, could be sold for $25.8 million following a ...